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The Kahane Connection: A Review of "Who Killed Alex Odeh?"
Tovi Rose, October 30, 2026
In a review of Jason Osder and William Lafi Youmans 2026 documentary Who Killed Alex Odeh, Tovi Rose traces how Meir Kahane's militant Jewish supremacist ideology became mainstream in Israel.
Against Their Interests? Understanding the Right-Wing Poor
Marcela Gottschald reviews Brazilian sociologist Jessé Souza’s O pobre de direita (The Poor on the Right), an inquiry into the social basis of support for right-wing politics among poor whites and Black evangelicals in Brazil. – Read review
Points of Arrival
Julian Assele reviews Points of Departure: Refusal of Work and the Crisis of Capitalism: Collected Writings of Harry Cleaver, edited by Robert Ovetz and Kevin Van Meter. While Cleaver rightly seeks to recenter working-class agency and grapple with the changing shape of class struggle, his incomplete application of the class composition method risks a voluntarist view of capital’s counteroffensive and leads to a flawed critique of revolutionary organization. – Read review
Israel's Lobby Under Review
Abel Bisrat reviews Israel's Lobby by Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick, finding a worthwhile expansion of previous scholarship for our contemporary era rather than a mere retreading of work by authors like Mearsheimer and Walt. Yet more work remains in mapping the class fractions behind Zionism and its stranglehold over US foreign policy. – Read review
Garrisoning White Power
Julian Assele reviews Gautham Rao's White Power: Policing American Slavery, arguing that its analysis of how racial domination determined American policing and notions of "public order" is further strengthened by a grounding in Marxist categories of labor command and capital accumulation. – Read review